Vacancy Details

Campus Location: Brisbane, Australia

Job No: APTAV134376#003

  • Exceptional national payroll leadership opportunity to manage ACU's payroll function, provide expert advice and ensure compliance
  • Lead a high performing team delivering crucial People & Culture and payroll services
  • ACU offers 17% employer superannuation, salary packaging and generous leave provisions
  • Full time, fixed term 15 month opportunity with some hybrid flexibility working at North Sydney or Brisbane campus

About the role:

Operating within Payroll Services, the National Manager, Payroll Services operates in a complex industrial and regulatory environment and leads a team of payroll specialists delivering accurate and timely fortnightly payroll, workers compensation, superannuation, taxation and related third-party payment services for ACU nationally. Reporting to the Associate Director - Workforce Systems, Reporting & Payroll the position has responsibility for managing the end to end payroll function, providing expert advice on payroll related matters and ensuring ongoing compliance with relevant ACU policies and industrial, external regulatory, Federation and State Government legislative requirements. The National Manager, Payroll Services will drive high standards of performance within the Payroll Services team building a culture of continuous improvement and service excellence enabling timely resolution of all payroll queries and supporting effective stewardship of university resources.

The National Manager, Payroll Services will have demonstrated experience in Aurion Payroll & HR Solutions, expertise in managing payroll systems and ability to manage a complex fortnightly payroll.

For full position details, refer to the position description

Contact:

General enquiries can be sent to Steve Dobson, Associate Director - Workforce Systems, Payroll & Reporting at: steve.dobson@acu.edu.au

What we offer:

  • The University pursues an excellence agenda and offers an environment where staff are welcomed and safe, and valued through development, participation and involvement.
  • Total remuneration valued to $207,150 - $207,150 total rem (pro rata) pa, including salary component $175,521 - $175,521 (pro rata) pa (HEW 10 Base 4), employer contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading.
  • 17% employer superannuation contributions to eligible continuing and fixed-term staff.
  • Annual leave loading of an equivalent to 17.5% of four weeks' salary pro rata payable, dependent on your commencement date.
  • As an ACU staff member, you will have access to generous benefits which include but not limited to: flexible work, study leave, a variety of leave provisions and salary packaging. Find out more information about the benefits or working at ACU here.

How to Apply:

Step 1: Review the Position Description and become familiar with Our Mission and the Application process

Step 2: Click the 'View Position Description and Apply' button, and populate your candidate application details, including your:

  • Resume.
  • Recommended responses to the Selection Criteria and Core Competencies in a cover letter (maximum 2 pages) or in the online Declaration and Criteria application page.
  • Brief online responses to any pre-screening employment questions.

Applications close: 01-NOV-2026 at 11:59pm AUS Eastern Standard Time

Preferred candidates will be required to complete mandatory pre-employment declarations and background checks, including those related to gender-based violence and foreign interference, in line with ACU's compliance requirements.

Candidates must hold Australian work rights to apply for this position. For permanent/ continuing roles, applicants must have permanent work rights. For further information visit Immigration and Citizenship(homeaffairs.gov.au)

Your Privacy of personal information is maintained in accordance with ACU policy. For more details visit: www.acu.edu.au/careers

ACU is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace culture that values diversity and enables our people to reach their potential. This is underpinned by our mission and values, grounded in our respect for all people and the advancement of the common good. In line with our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion we welcome candidates from all backgrounds and lived experiences. ACU is recognised as a Veteran Employment Supporter and veterans are encouraged to apply. ACU offers support for candidates that may require adjustments through the recruitment process. Please contact recruitment@acu.edu.au to discuss your requirements in confidence.

About ACU:

Australian Catholic University (ACU) is a publicly funded university whose teaching, research and service is shaped by the vision of flourishing lives, thriving communities, and a more ethical future for our world. ACU has more than 2,500 staff and 34,000 students across eight campuses: Ballarat, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, North Sydney, Strathfield, Blacktown and Rome.

ACU draws on the Catholic intellectual tradition which values human reason and welcomes everyone regardless of their faith, cultural tradition or circumstances. ACU invites all staff - both academic and professional - to embrace, and to support in ways meaningful to them, its mission to respect the dignity of every human person, to seek knowledge and to advance the common good.

ACU does not accept candidate applications submitted by external recruitment agencies through the ACU careers website.

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